Where am I? You're on AOL.
What do you want? Search information.
Whose side are you on? That would be telling. We want information. Information. Information.
You won't get it. By hook or by crook, we will.
Who are you? The new ad-funded AOL Number 2.
Who is Number 1? You are Number 4417749.
I am not a number -- I am a free gran!
Yesterday, I saw my 2.2 GHz desktop (running FC5) spend over a second drawing a single button under heavy loads.
Emphasis mine. The application drawing the button was not on the CPU for "over a second". You said "heavy load" — so there's competition for CPU time, and this could've been made worse by waiting on I/O, swapping pages, etc. Drawing a button probably takes no more than a few hundred thousand cycles (even with GTK2 and Cairo). man nice.
Fedora has a very strong sense of purity in keeping its distro Free, and I like this (no, I don't mind having to visit Livna for MP3, etc.). Further to the goal of a completely Free system, can we expect to see the Fedora project becoming more vocal about Free drivers, and standing besides our neighbours in the OpenBSD community (amongst others) in pressuring hardware providers for open specifications?
Comp. Sci. students that won't use Linux. For shame.
Here at [whistles].ac.uk, there used to be two large UNIX facilities on the main campus: one room full of Sun Ultra 5 workstations, another with SGI O2s. I used to like those workstations. I had no real reason to use them other than I liked UNIX (I was a Physics undergrad then) and found it much easier to code with (and I occasionally had Engineering and Comp. Sci. students asking me how to use it — another sorry indictment or what?!). One summer, about three years ago, the Ultra 5s were removed (to God only knows where) and replaced with ugly Windows 98 boxes. The following summer, the O2s were quietly taken out and shot as well. Some ugly, ugly Intel boxes with that argumentative XP nonsense appeared in their wake. The only UNIX workstations I know of today are the RHEL boxes in my own office.
What?! Motorola sells the same shit both sides of the Atlantic!
Better television experience
Maybe on UK terrestrial, but with ITV and BBC competing in the Reality market, any mark of quality is gradually fading.
Are way ahead when it comes to stanards (think about their take on IE and ODF)
Then again, here in the UK we'll do as anyone tells us.
Seem to be ahead in auto technology
Aesthetically, there's no beating a European motor. Technologically, however, it's the Japanese who are out in front in terms of reliability and the power/consumption ratio.
Are way ahead in meeting the Kyoto Protocol goals
Which may never been enough anyway.
Seem to get results when it comes to diplomacy arround the world
I agree — there's a lot to be said for keeping out of other people's business. If only the jug-eared bastard currently in charge of the UK would do this and sort out his own rapidly deteriorating back yard.
And now comes this OSS issue. Once again, these Europeans appear to be a bit ahead
Linus T. may have been European of the Year once, but what about RMS or ESR or TdR?
And what happens when a vulnerability in a user-space driver is exploited to tell a piece of DMA-enabled hardware to go nuts? It's game over again. The flaw is in the cheapo x86 hardware architecture (i.e., lack of pervasive memory protection on all I/O).
Although the parent is made in good humour, some male geeks seriously need to take a good look at their own firewalls. Why let this flirty crap through? They're only doing it to get results! Help others with computers because you've a natural urge to solve problems, and because you're a nice person all round who'd help anyone anyway.
Apparently if you bullshit them for more than fifteen seconds, they hang up on you. Relatives of mine are into this --- they strike up heavily fictionalised conversations. I get the appeal of this, but half of me sometimes wonders if the poor bastard on the other end of the line is a student working over the summer to stump up next year's tuition fees... Personally, I prefer the terse approach when they call my mobile.
Remote. Hello, I'm $name and I'd like to ask you some questions about --- Me. Whom do you represent. Remote.$business, and... Me. Do not call this number again. [Hangs up.]
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First, congratulations to the Security Services for foiling this plot.
Did they need to detain someone for 90 days without trial to prevent this disaster?
Would ID cards have helped?
And how long before I can travel with my notebook onto an aeroplane again, as we all know a cargo hold is no place for a lithium ion battery?
Where am I?
You're on AOL.
What do you want?
Search information.
Whose side are you on?
That would be telling. We want information. Information. Information.
You won't get it.
By hook or by crook, we will.
Who are you?
The new ad-funded AOL Number 2.
Who is Number 1?
You are Number 4417749.
I am not a number -- I am a free gran!
Killer IO-APIC!
Stay alert, kids, because we'll soon be announcing Killer Keyboard Controller with Bitchin' Gate A20 Technology!
Pwn!
w00t!
Fedora has a very strong sense of purity in keeping its distro Free, and I like this (no, I don't mind having to visit Livna for MP3, etc.). Further to the goal of a completely Free system, can we expect to see the Fedora project becoming more vocal about Free drivers, and standing besides our neighbours in the OpenBSD community (amongst others) in pressuring hardware providers for open specifications?
And if not, can they make an exception for SCO?
I for one am glad that... ah, nevermind... move to Canana... shit, sibling poster ruled that one out too.
Comp. Sci. students that won't use Linux. For shame.
Here at [whistles].ac.uk, there used to be two large UNIX facilities on the main campus: one room full of Sun Ultra 5 workstations, another with SGI O2s. I used to like those workstations. I had no real reason to use them other than I liked UNIX (I was a Physics undergrad then) and found it much easier to code with (and I occasionally had Engineering and Comp. Sci. students asking me how to use it — another sorry indictment or what?!). One summer, about three years ago, the Ultra 5s were removed (to God only knows where) and replaced with ugly Windows 98 boxes. The following summer, the O2s were quietly taken out and shot as well. Some ugly, ugly Intel boxes with that argumentative XP nonsense appeared in their wake. The only UNIX workstations I know of today are the RHEL boxes in my own office.
Terrible.
And what happens when a vulnerability in a user-space driver is exploited to tell a piece of DMA-enabled hardware to go nuts? It's game over again. The flaw is in the cheapo x86 hardware architecture (i.e., lack of pervasive memory protection on all I/O).
Ann Coulter, is that you?!
Although the parent is made in good humour, some male geeks seriously need to take a good look at their own firewalls. Why let this flirty crap through? They're only doing it to get results! Help others with computers because you've a natural urge to solve problems, and because you're a nice person all round who'd help anyone anyway.
Seems reasonable.
So is nVIDIA now targeting SGI's traditional clientelle and moving into the graphic brick business?
I'd hate to have to repair, clean and reinstall one of those.
...by going into the case business. They knew a good looking workstation.
Porn sites lead to spyware.
I see your point.
Have they attributed the photo they used anywhere, as per its CC license?
No one with the wherewithall to be using Jabber would use AOLspeak.
The name "Diebold"... sounds a bit like... "diabolical", "Diabolus", "diabolism".
Apparently if you bullshit them for more than fifteen seconds, they hang up on you. Relatives of mine are into this --- they strike up heavily fictionalised conversations. I get the appeal of this, but half of me sometimes wonders if the poor bastard on the other end of the line is a student working over the summer to stump up next year's tuition fees... Personally, I prefer the terse approach when they call my mobile.
I think, perhaps, your colleague span you a yarn or two.
Knowing full well you'd buy it.
Let's leave the sexual objectification to FreeBSD, shall we?